The motive assigned for the confermentis public security, and the extension of rights seems to be justified (l.
It is possible that the conferment of this honour gave rise to the malicious story, which became not only distorted but misplaced.
The great mass of the Republicans stopped short of the demand for the conferment of suffrage on the negro.
Let there be no confusion about the purpose of the suggested conferment of power to make decisions effective.
The conferment of such authority would be in the line of that sound morality which shrinks from affording secure asylum to the author of a heinous crime.
In like manner authority to administer the ordinances of the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be definitely vested through personal conferment as the law of God prescribes.
Without baptism by water and theconferment of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands no man can enter the kingdom of God, for so the Lord hath affirmed and so the Scriptures attest.
This is the first authentic instance of the conferment of the imperium upon a private citizen.
In this way Caesar promoted the romanization of the provinces, a policy which he had begun with his conferment of the franchise upon the Transpadane Gauls in 49, and continued in the case of many Spanish communities.
At the time of the conferment of the tribunician authority, a series of senatorial decrees added or gave greater precision to the powers of Augustus.
The appointment to the principate originally involved the conferment of the imperium, the tribunician power and other rights and privileges.
The preliminaries, formal or otherwise, to the conferment of degrees have now been described.
But it is more than this; in the conferment of University Degrees are preserved formulae as old as the University itself, and a ritual which, if understood, is full of meaning as to the oldest University history.
Footnote 25: The old statutes as to the dress of graduates are still in force, and partially observed at conferment of degrees, examinations, &c.
